The organic nanny's guide to raising healthy kids
Subtitle: how to create a well-balanced diet and lifestyle for your child--from toddlers to tweens
By: Barbara Rodriguez with Eve Adamson
Contributors: Adamson, Eve
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780738214894; 9780738215303
Subjects: Nutrition; Parenting; Food habits; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General; Natural foods; Children
Description: "Who needs a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down when professional nanny Barbara Rodriguez has tips to make the medicine go away? In <b>The Organic Nannys Guide to Raising Healthy Kids</b>, Rodriguez shows parents some simple lifestyle changes that can help them dramatically improve the well-being of their children.As a nanny, Rodriguez has seen some disturbing trends-toxic foods, childhood obesity, insomnia, and a lack of communication between parents and children. Her advice? Nutritious food and natural remedies to resolve chronic health and behavior issues. <b>The Organic Nannys Guide to Raising Healthy Kids</b> will help parents put their children on a more natural track and give them a childhood to remember"--

"In The Organic Nanny's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids, Barbara Rodriguez reveals the secrets she uses to help parents and children learn to eat for better health and vitality, sleep more soundly, live more mindfully, and spend more positive time together. By sharing her stories and creative techniques, Barbara teaches parents how to create a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle for children, from toddlers to tweens. Each chapter provides a framework to help readers begin to make positive changes in their home, from how to use food and other natural remedies to resolve chronic health and behavior issues, to organic home makeovers. Barbara's techniques are accompanied by anecdotes and tips she learned as a high-profile nanny to numerous celebrities. Whether discussing the downside of dairy or explaining how to soothe kids with aromatherapy and massage, whether teaching them to give thanks and bring more gratitude into life, whether unravelling the magic of music and lullabies or explaining the behavior and health consequences of a poor diet--The Organic Nanny's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids isn't just vegan recipes for health. It's about making changes are all, at their essence, organic--organic food, organic relationships, and an organic connection with the earth. This book will show you how to put your children on a more natural track and to give them a childhood worthy of remembrance"--
Notes: Includes index.